Security Engineer (DevSecOps)

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• Role : Security Engineer (DevSecOps)
• Location : London office 2-3 days per week
• Salary : up to 85,000 basic + benefits

Lawrence Harvey are partnered with a seriously exciting, rapidly growing digital trading platform that serve as the backbone for a multitude of high-profile financial services players. As part of a massive re-engineering project, they are searching for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to work closely with the CISO, Platform Engineering and Development teams.

You'll be responsible for embedding security throughout the software development lifecycle, strengthening cloud and CI/CD security, and enabling engineering teams to build and deploy secure, scalable services. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll design and implement security controls, automate security into development pipelines, and help shape the DevSecOps strategy across a modern cloud-native environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Embed security across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure and software development.
• Implement automated security controls, guardrails and testing across pipelines.
• Secure Azure, Kubernetes, containers and Infrastructure-as-Code environments.
• Integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, vulnerability scanning and secrets management.
• Partner with developers and platform engineers to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Develop DevSecOps standards, tooling and automation.

Key Requirements

• Strong experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Security or Security Engineering.
• Hands-on expertise across Azure, Kubernetes, containers and Terraform/IaC.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices.#
• Experience with application security and automated security tooling.
• Strong scripting/automation skills, ideally Python or PowerShell.
• Pragmatic approach to embedding security without impacting engineering velocity.

This is an incredible opportunity to join a high-growth financial technology business and play a key role in building security into its engineering lifecycle from the ground up

** candidates must be based in and have right to work in UK with no restrictions - No VISA sponsorship is on offer unfortunately **